Events Extraordinary

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Mr. T.R. Krishnamachari, a graduate in science of the University of Madras, was conferred MA status and in 1975 awarded a Diploma in Development Studies with Distinction, by the University of Cambridge Earlier, he was successful in the IAS & Allied Services Competitive Examination conducted in 1962 and was inducted into the Indian Audit and Accounts Service (IAAS), Mr. Krishnamachan has left the service. He was deputed to the Park secretariat, in two spells lasting eleven years When he lever secretariat in 1984, he was Joint Secretary, Lok Sabha. Towards the end of the career, he was sent to New York as the first Indian Director of External Audit of the United Nations. He retired from government service as a Principal Accountant General in 1994 and was thereafter a senior member of the International Civil Service until 1998

He has authored a number of professional articles, monographs and other publications, and edited books on auditing. He was also the editor of the Asian Journal of Government Auditing. He was in charge of the Bureau of Parliamentary Studies and Training in the Parliament secretariat and of the International Training Centre in the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. He was invited to give lectures in such premier institutions as the Indian Institute of Public Administration National Institute of Public Finance and Policy and the Institute of Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies Between 1988 and 1994, he was India's delegate to three Asian workshops in Tokyo two Asian conferences in Beijing and New De and a world conference in Washington DC he has chaired a workshop session in Tokyo and moderated a panel discussion at the world conference. Mr Krishramachan is widely Travelled

A spiritual truth is not something that is learnt by reading or being taught; it has to be experienced. What have I learnt by experience? The answer is unhesitatingly that life is aided by the unseen for those who care. The events narrated here would strongly indicate this truth. Some of my friends to whom I have mentioned these in bits and parts had urged me to put them in writing, and I resisted it all along, but time has arrived to do that if only to let my children and grandchildren know their legacy. Spending two-three hours a day, the task was accomplished in less than three weeks, as the events were indelibly etched in my memory.

My father wrote in his parting note to me that he was not leaving behind anything for me. For once he was pleasantly wrong. In the evening of my life, as I took stock I realized that I had inherited a rich spiritual legacy. My heart swells in gratitude to him. I am also grateful to my mother-spirit and my Acharyas who inspired me truly to know my self, with faith, humility and constant introspection.

The events were that mostly either participated or witnessed by my wife Vijayalakshmi, who came to me as a beautiful young girl in her teens. In recording them she has been of great help. As we complete nearly forty years of life together, which has been on the whole satisfying and even rewarding, it is clear to me that without her it would have been different.